Another rump quote that comes back to bite.
Alfonso is on fire. 18 RBI's in 4 games ties a mlb record held by some great players. You laughing Rumps?
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Another rump quote that comes back to bite.
Alfonso is on fire. 18 RBI's in 4 games ties a mlb record held by some great players. You laughing Rumps?
Many of the players drafted have played 3 years in College. It's not so much developing the skills of the player, but proving to the major league team that they can play everyday on a major league level. In Single A, they do receive instruction to improve their play.
There's not much difference between the skill set of a AA or AAA player and the major league player. The big leaguer is usually more consistent. Even when the player reaches the big leagues, he must prove to the team he is worthy of being there.
You're mistaken again, rumps. Curley, Larry, and Moe have been posting regularly for the past couple weeks. Well, at least Curley and Larry, or is that Larry and Moe, or Curley and Moe?
Soriano's 18 RBIs in 4 games ties a major league record held by 5 players, including DiMaggio and Gehrig. From what I see, he is hitting the ball to all fields. He has always had a quick bat and very strong wrists and has been compared to Ernie Banks by some long time analysts. Now he is older but also smarter at the plate. He is also infused with energy and enthusiasm by playing for the Yankees as opposed to the Cubs who are a terrible team.
Travis d'Arnaud starts his first game for the Mets since the Dickey trade
Plans are for him to catch all 3 games against the Padres this weekend
He is the highest rated catcher on MLB.com's 2013 Prospect Watch
I hope this continues our slow climb back....
Best Regards
Smuler
Plans are for him to catch all 3 games against the Padres this weekend
He is the highest rated catcher on MLB.com's 2013 Prospect Watch
I hope this continues our slow climb back....
Best Regards
Smuler
Daydreamer!! You're out from under the rock too!! How're the anger management classes coming along?
Sometimes I think you really take pleasure in being wrong? Wrong in politics; wrong in sports.
While the difference between AA and AAA isn't huge, it does exist. The jump the the big leagues is enormous. The pitching in the major leagues is much more difficult and much more sophisticated. Most AA and AAA hitters can hit a fastball at any speed. Hitting good breaking stuff is something else entirely. It separates the men from the boys.
Sometimes I wonder if Daydreamer is taking advanced courses at the Joe.T Institute of Delusional Studies or if Joe.T has his head buried in the "books" at Daydreamer College of Facts Ignored.
Aww, rumps, anger management? Me? You're the angry white guy here. When I think of you rumps, see you like Big Poppie smashing that bat against the dugout telephone. :lol:
Rumps, the king of insults, while he goes crying to mod 8 at the first guy who looks cross-eyed at him.
I don't need that rumps. Are you depressed, rumps? Is that what you take? It must be horrible being you.
It may help you, but it won't help me.
Hey BOYZ!
Dare to ask what IDIOT dumped Soriano from the Yanks in the first place. BTW, you sure it's not Hercules instead of Banks. :lol:
Rumps, how could you ever forget about Shemp, as much as you want to. It should be short stay though. One loss is like turning on the light in the kitchen and they all scurry back to the cracks.
That's right, another Joe.t night, BUSTED! Change the names to Ortiz and Ellsbury and you've got something.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...key-red-sox-break-slide-beat-yankees/2668103/
The Yankees had scored 10 or more runs in three of their last four. New York lost for just the second time in seven games.
Lackey (8-10) relied mostly on his fastball, slider and changeup. He gave up one run and six hits while walking three over 6 2/3 innings to halt a four-game losing streak, the longest of his career. He was 0-4 with a 4.96 ERA in his previous five starts.
Hiroki Kuroda (11-8) matched a season high by giving up five runs — three earned — and 11 hits. He struck out six and did not walk a batter in 5 2/3 innings. The 38-year-old right-hander was 4-1 with a 0.94 ERA in his previous seven starts.
Leading 3-1 in the sixth, Boston added two runs and chased Kuroda. Jarrod Saltalamacchia had an RBI single and scored on Ellsbury's double off the base of the right-field wall. Ortiz homered into the center-field seats off reliever Adam Warren in the seventh.
The Red Sox took advantage of an error and a missed call to jump ahead 3-0 in the fourth. With runners at the corners and one out, first baseman Lyle Overbay fielded Stephen Drew's grounder and fired wide of second. Yankees shortstop Eduardo Nunez had to jump to catch the ball and threw late to first, with Ortiz scoring from third to make it 1-0.
Ummmmmm hmmmmmmm, John Lackey Totally handcuffed the Yankees and the Sox chased off Kuroda.
Sweeeeeet
Merlot
Dare to ask what IDIOT dumped Soriano from the Yanks in the first place. BTW, you sure it's not Hercules instead of Banks. :lol:
Rumps, how could you ever forget about Shemp, as much as you want to. It should be short stay though. One loss is like turning on the light in the kitchen and they all scurry back to the cracks.
That's right, another Joe.t night, BUSTED! Change the names to Ortiz and Ellsbury and you've got something.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...key-red-sox-break-slide-beat-yankees/2668103/
The Yankees had scored 10 or more runs in three of their last four. New York lost for just the second time in seven games.
Lackey (8-10) relied mostly on his fastball, slider and changeup. He gave up one run and six hits while walking three over 6 2/3 innings to halt a four-game losing streak, the longest of his career. He was 0-4 with a 4.96 ERA in his previous five starts.
Hiroki Kuroda (11-8) matched a season high by giving up five runs — three earned — and 11 hits. He struck out six and did not walk a batter in 5 2/3 innings. The 38-year-old right-hander was 4-1 with a 0.94 ERA in his previous seven starts.
Leading 3-1 in the sixth, Boston added two runs and chased Kuroda. Jarrod Saltalamacchia had an RBI single and scored on Ellsbury's double off the base of the right-field wall. Ortiz homered into the center-field seats off reliever Adam Warren in the seventh.
The Red Sox took advantage of an error and a missed call to jump ahead 3-0 in the fourth. With runners at the corners and one out, first baseman Lyle Overbay fielded Stephen Drew's grounder and fired wide of second. Yankees shortstop Eduardo Nunez had to jump to catch the ball and threw late to first, with Ortiz scoring from third to make it 1-0.
Ummmmmm hmmmmmmm, John Lackey Totally handcuffed the Yankees and the Sox chased off Kuroda.
Sweeeeeet
Merlot
Oooops,
Did the Yankees try to sabotage the recovery of A-Rod?
http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/sto...llenge-alex-rodriguez-release-medical-records
The New York Times published a story Saturday in which Joseph Tacopina, Rodriguez's new attorney, alleged Levine had told Dr. Bryan Kelly, who was about to perform hip surgery on Rodriguez in January, "I don't ever want to see him on the field again."
"We will put up, mark my words, we will put up," Tacopina told ESPNNewYork.com on Saturday. "[Levine] is always a very big talker, but he is going to be humbled eventually. He is acting in a way that if his bosses and superiors and the Steinbrenner family have any sense of decency, if they are true to what the Yankees' heritage is, they would be appalled with how their president is acting. We will put up."
Tacopina alleged that Levine wanted Kelly to help ensure Rodriguez could not return to the field again so the Yankees could collect insurance on the final $114 million remaining on his contract heading into this season.
"The obvious implication there is if the surgery is not successful, I'm good with that," Tacopina said. "Anyone with a brain can understand the implication of that. It was something that troubled Dr. Kelly so much that he decided to relay it to Alex Rodriguez, his patient."
Kelly further infuriated Levine, according to Tacopina, when he publicly said Rodriguez's second hip surgery had nothing to do with his admitted performance-enhancing drug use from 2001 to 2003.
"Randy Levine called and just unloaded on him," Tacopina said. "He said, 'You work for us, not him.' "
Tacopina said the Yankees wanted to use the deterioration in his hip because of PED use as a legal means to escape Rodriguez's contract.
"That's nonsense," Levine said of all the allegations. "You can't even respond to a thing like that."
Levine said with Rodriguez's permission, the Yankees would release all of his medical records dating back to Rodriguez's first hip surgery -- March 2009 -- to refute Tacopina's contention that he was not told by the club Rodriguez was unfit to play during last October's playoffs.
"If he really believes that, he should file a grievance for the release of all his medical records," Levine said. "We're willing to release all of them. All he has to do is say yes and we'll release them all for everyone to see."
Rodriguez, after the Yankees' 6-1 loss to the Red Sox on Saturday, said he would release the records "when the time is right."
Galea, a Canadian sports doctor who treated Rodriguez and Tiger Woods among others, pleaded guilty in 2011 to illegally bringing drugs, including human growth hormone, into the United States, for which he served a year in jail. Galea, who is not licensed to practice medicine in the U.S., faces similar charges in Canada.
Rodriguez faces a 211-game suspension by Major League Baseball for violations of its collective bargaining agreement and its joint drug agreement stemming from his involvement with Anthony Bosch, the owner of Biogenesis, a now shuttered Coral Gables, Fla., "anti-aging clinic" that is suspected of having supplied professional athletes with illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Tacopina made his accusations a day after CBS's "60 Minutes" published a story alleging a member of Rodriguez's "inner circle" had implicated other players, including his teammate, Francisco Cervelli, in the Biogenesis scandal by leaking documents to Yahoo! Sports.
Tacopina said Rodriguez's legal team is focused on his client's arbitration hearing, is upset with the leaking of stories, including the "60 Minutes" report. He said he only made his statements on Saturday because they are not going to be pushed around in public perception.
"They are going to get pushed back," Tacopina said.
continued...
What a dirty soap opera going on between the Yankees and A-Rod. :nono:
peeeeuuuuuuu,
Merlot
Did the Yankees try to sabotage the recovery of A-Rod?
http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/sto...llenge-alex-rodriguez-release-medical-records
The New York Times published a story Saturday in which Joseph Tacopina, Rodriguez's new attorney, alleged Levine had told Dr. Bryan Kelly, who was about to perform hip surgery on Rodriguez in January, "I don't ever want to see him on the field again."
"We will put up, mark my words, we will put up," Tacopina told ESPNNewYork.com on Saturday. "[Levine] is always a very big talker, but he is going to be humbled eventually. He is acting in a way that if his bosses and superiors and the Steinbrenner family have any sense of decency, if they are true to what the Yankees' heritage is, they would be appalled with how their president is acting. We will put up."
Tacopina alleged that Levine wanted Kelly to help ensure Rodriguez could not return to the field again so the Yankees could collect insurance on the final $114 million remaining on his contract heading into this season.
"The obvious implication there is if the surgery is not successful, I'm good with that," Tacopina said. "Anyone with a brain can understand the implication of that. It was something that troubled Dr. Kelly so much that he decided to relay it to Alex Rodriguez, his patient."
Kelly further infuriated Levine, according to Tacopina, when he publicly said Rodriguez's second hip surgery had nothing to do with his admitted performance-enhancing drug use from 2001 to 2003.
"Randy Levine called and just unloaded on him," Tacopina said. "He said, 'You work for us, not him.' "
Tacopina said the Yankees wanted to use the deterioration in his hip because of PED use as a legal means to escape Rodriguez's contract.
"That's nonsense," Levine said of all the allegations. "You can't even respond to a thing like that."
Levine said with Rodriguez's permission, the Yankees would release all of his medical records dating back to Rodriguez's first hip surgery -- March 2009 -- to refute Tacopina's contention that he was not told by the club Rodriguez was unfit to play during last October's playoffs.
"If he really believes that, he should file a grievance for the release of all his medical records," Levine said. "We're willing to release all of them. All he has to do is say yes and we'll release them all for everyone to see."
Rodriguez, after the Yankees' 6-1 loss to the Red Sox on Saturday, said he would release the records "when the time is right."
Galea, a Canadian sports doctor who treated Rodriguez and Tiger Woods among others, pleaded guilty in 2011 to illegally bringing drugs, including human growth hormone, into the United States, for which he served a year in jail. Galea, who is not licensed to practice medicine in the U.S., faces similar charges in Canada.
Rodriguez faces a 211-game suspension by Major League Baseball for violations of its collective bargaining agreement and its joint drug agreement stemming from his involvement with Anthony Bosch, the owner of Biogenesis, a now shuttered Coral Gables, Fla., "anti-aging clinic" that is suspected of having supplied professional athletes with illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Tacopina made his accusations a day after CBS's "60 Minutes" published a story alleging a member of Rodriguez's "inner circle" had implicated other players, including his teammate, Francisco Cervelli, in the Biogenesis scandal by leaking documents to Yahoo! Sports.
Tacopina said Rodriguez's legal team is focused on his client's arbitration hearing, is upset with the leaking of stories, including the "60 Minutes" report. He said he only made his statements on Saturday because they are not going to be pushed around in public perception.
"They are going to get pushed back," Tacopina said.
continued...
What a dirty soap opera going on between the Yankees and A-Rod. :nono:
peeeeuuuuuuu,
Merlot
D'Arnaud has had a very disappointing season so far. And once again, he's spent time a good portion of the season injured. The fact he couldn't crack the Mets roster at training camp tells you something. So far, his progress has been slower than expected & his durability is very questionable. The only reason he got called up was because of John Buck's paternity leave.
How did Ryan Dempster not get ejected after this?
http://deadspin.com/ryan-dempster-beans-a-rod-and-somehow-joe-girardi-is-t-1164355300
http://deadspin.com/ryan-dempster-beans-a-rod-and-somehow-joe-girardi-is-t-1164355300
Chercherfemmes told me that Girardi yelled at Dempster, "that is bullshit you fucking pussy!" Which Girardi was 100% correct about. Actually this incident cost the Red Sox the game as it directly led to 2 runs and indirectly led to another. It was just stupid and this kind of stupidity can come back to bite a team. Red Sox had a chance to put themselves 9.5 up on the Yankees and instead are precariously only 6 up in the loss column. The Yankees as currently constituted have a much better offense than what they were running out most of the year and they have gone from no pop on the right side to significant pop on the right side which has been evident the last week. The Yankees problem is their pitching which has been more inconsistent than one would have expected.
I agree that this boneheaded stunt by Dempster likely cost them the game. The Yankees weren't doing anything until that incident & they caught fire afterwards. I mean, if you really want to hit Rodriguez, then wait until later in the game when the game is out of reach & having him on won't mean a thing.
However, considering Dempster barely made it past 5 innings on another high pitch count, maybe he felt he better hit him now in case he doesn't face him again. But there's no doubt in my mind that allowing those two runs in that inning changed the course of the game.
I still predict that both the Red Sox & the Yankees won't make the post-season. Tampa has the team (and especially the manager) to go all the way. The Red Sox might get the wild card, but even that is a big 'maybe'. They'll need Bucholz to come back to form (and stay off the DL) if they want to get that wildcard. The starting pitching is adequate, no more, but i'm not a fan of the bullpen. There are also too many holes in the lineup for the team to make it to the post-season. Other than Ellesbury, Nava, Pedroia and Ortiz, there's not much else. Gomes is below-average & not much of a threat other than as a pinch-hitter, Middlebrooks is a minor leaguer, Drew is average at best, same with Saltamachia, and Napoli can't hit for average. Take away his games against Toronto and he'd be having an extremely disappointing season.
Plus, there's the John Farrell Factor. I have no confidence in his managing abilities. The players have made him look good so far, but come September, the pressure will get to him and he'll find a way to screw it up.
And of course, that infamous September Factor. 'Nuff said.
However, considering Dempster barely made it past 5 innings on another high pitch count, maybe he felt he better hit him now in case he doesn't face him again. But there's no doubt in my mind that allowing those two runs in that inning changed the course of the game.
I still predict that both the Red Sox & the Yankees won't make the post-season. Tampa has the team (and especially the manager) to go all the way. The Red Sox might get the wild card, but even that is a big 'maybe'. They'll need Bucholz to come back to form (and stay off the DL) if they want to get that wildcard. The starting pitching is adequate, no more, but i'm not a fan of the bullpen. There are also too many holes in the lineup for the team to make it to the post-season. Other than Ellesbury, Nava, Pedroia and Ortiz, there's not much else. Gomes is below-average & not much of a threat other than as a pinch-hitter, Middlebrooks is a minor leaguer, Drew is average at best, same with Saltamachia, and Napoli can't hit for average. Take away his games against Toronto and he'd be having an extremely disappointing season.
Plus, there's the John Farrell Factor. I have no confidence in his managing abilities. The players have made him look good so far, but come September, the pressure will get to him and he'll find a way to screw it up.
And of course, that infamous September Factor. 'Nuff said.
BOYZ!
Dempster is the shakiest pitcher we have. It's incredibly stupid to give the opponent any incentive to crank up their game, especially in his case where he needs every advantage he can get. Doing it at all is questionable, doing it so early is nuts. But Dempster hit him in the elbow; not an automatic ejection.
All generally true, but then it's been that way all year and the Sox have held first despite some terrific runs by Tampa. The truth is no team in the AL East has the pieces to take firm control.
Your entitled to doubt him considering his tenure in Toronto, but the abysmal showing of the Jays this year proves their problems were and are a lot more than Farrell being in charge.
You're also double-dealing on your analysis. If the Sox have that many holes in the lineup, pitching, and relief as you say then a significant part of what has kept them ahead must be given the management. You can't say a first place team is weak and the manager is a screw up when they have held first so long. If that were true they'd be in Toronto's position.
Farrell has gotten a lot out of a number of second level players because of the manner and timing of their use, and don't forget they've had 6 pitchers on the DL for a long time, including Buchholz with his 1.71 ERA and having to go through much of the season without a true closer despite the heroic efforts of Uehara.
Cheers,
Merlot
Dempster is the shakiest pitcher we have. It's incredibly stupid to give the opponent any incentive to crank up their game, especially in his case where he needs every advantage he can get. Doing it at all is questionable, doing it so early is nuts. But Dempster hit him in the elbow; not an automatic ejection.
All generally true, but then it's been that way all year and the Sox have held first despite some terrific runs by Tampa. The truth is no team in the AL East has the pieces to take firm control.
Your entitled to doubt him considering his tenure in Toronto, but the abysmal showing of the Jays this year proves their problems were and are a lot more than Farrell being in charge.
You're also double-dealing on your analysis. If the Sox have that many holes in the lineup, pitching, and relief as you say then a significant part of what has kept them ahead must be given the management. You can't say a first place team is weak and the manager is a screw up when they have held first so long. If that were true they'd be in Toronto's position.
Farrell has gotten a lot out of a number of second level players because of the manner and timing of their use, and don't forget they've had 6 pitchers on the DL for a long time, including Buchholz with his 1.71 ERA and having to go through much of the season without a true closer despite the heroic efforts of Uehara.
Cheers,
Merlot
Hitting a guy in the elbow may not be an automatic ejection but he obviously threw at him twice. Who is Ryan Dempster to be the one to dole out justice like this? I am not an Aroid fan. In fact I enjoyed booing him at Yankee stadium his first day back. This just didn't look right. It was not right that Dempster stayed in the game. Let MLB deal with Arod. I sure wish I knew why Arod gets 211 and the next highest suspension is 65.
He who is without sin may cast the first baseball....and the 2nd, and 3rd, and 4th!
He who is without sin may cast the first baseball....and the 2nd, and 3rd, and 4th!
Dempster is a low class coward and a horrible pitcher in the AL as i said from the day the red sox got him and i for one was glad he was allowed to stay in the game because i new the Yanks would hammer him and they did. Another low class piece of crap is jon lackie for the things he said about arod playing during the appeals....duh you doofus, those things were bargained for in the cba, something both you and Arod benefit from AS PLAYERS. But why should anyone repsect a guy that leaves his wife while she is in the hospital battling cancer.... scumbag, and he fits right in with the team he plays for, just as dumpster does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5RN4P-I0NQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5RN4P-I0NQ
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